S. 4 Timeline – Day of Honor, Nemesis, & Revulsion

[Ro_Laren]

I was watching the Season 4 episode Revulsion today and something that Paris said confused me. The following scene takes place after Tuvok’s promotion ceremony in the Mess Hall when Paris followed B’Elanna to the hallway:

PARIS: B'Elanna, this is ridiculous. It's been three days and we haven't said a word to each other.
TORRES: I know, we have to talk.
PARIS: About what you said. I mean, the part about being in love with me. I realize you were suffering from oxygen deprivation and we were literally seconds away from death, so I know you probably didn't mean it.
TORRES: Oh no, I meant it, but I don't expect you to reciprocate. Really, you can just pretend that I didn't say it. In fact let's just pretend that I didn't
PARIS: Shut up.
He then leans in and they kiss.

This makes it seem like the episode Revulsion takes place right after the episode Day of Honor. However, what about the events of the episode in between: Nemesis? The events in Nemesis definitely seem to take place over more than three days. But, I’d have to re-watch the episode to see if they definitively mention how many days Chakotay was “missing” on the Vori planet.

 

[StewMc]

IIRC the original production order would have put "Nemesis" before "Day of Honor", but they were switched around on broadcast. Its a shame, as Voyager's continuity references were few and far between at the best of the times, and the one time they put in a little ongoing plot (ie Tom and B'Elanna), they (TPTB? UPN? I don't know) mess it up.

I'd assume it was done to keep Seven in the limelight after "Scorpion Pt 2" and "The Gift", as she doesn't appear in "Nemesis" at all, presumably because the point was supposed to be that after The Gift they kept her locked up in the cargo bay until they felt they could trust her.

They ended up doing the same thing again in S7, with "Drive" and Imperfection" being switched around on broadcast, resulting in the Delta Flyer being magically resurrected in "Imperfection" without comment (aside from Tom chiding Janeway for blowing it up in "Unimatrix Zero") and then was later being put through test runs by Tom and Harry in "Drive". I'm sure at some point you see Tom's wedding ring on him "before" he gets married as well. Again a Seven-centric episode was put first, probably for ratings, or because it was usually tradition by that point to have some sort of Seven/Borg episode as the second episode of the season.

 

[Lance]

Its a shame, as Voyager's continuity references were few and far between at the best of the times

I actually think VOY has got more inter-episode continuity than people often credit it for.

People do tend to look at it's format and only see the standalone 'A plot', but watched in succession there is a great deal more going on than is often assumed.

Not enough to claim (as someone erroneously did on here some months ago as I recall) that it was serialized. But certainly I don't think it gets the credit it deserves for what they did often do, albeit in a more subtle way than perhaps DS9 did.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That was Digfic writer with a massively impressive flowchart.

Although the list also celebrated that continuity was every time the Borg showed up.